HBS memories - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

HBS professors of whom I still have fond memories. Robert Willig (MBA 1963) Walter Salmon was the kindest man on the faculty when I was there. He is my fondest memory of the school. Charles E. Smith (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall

Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks worldwide. Could a crash of that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of the United Kingdom. We asked... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

been imagining for the next phase of his career, but the story moved him. He had fond memories of snacking on madeleines as a young child—most likely Jeannette madeleines, although he couldn’t be certain. The son of a construction worker,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money

petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria, where, as a recent View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation

funeral home. And because the building was in such terrible repair, just tear it down and extend your building. But from another point of view, the question is, what do you do with the funeral home? JH: A longtime supporter of education, with fellowships at both View Details

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